If the government knew about aliens, should it tell us?
At the UFO whistleblower hearings in congress military pilots, commanders and secret service personnel claimed the US government had recovered crashed alien craft containing remains of its crew and was working to reengineer it.
The government responded that it had no proof of alien life. That would be fine if there weren’t facts that do not play well together.
First, no military personnel that deals with secret agendas can blow any whistle that was not manufactured by a government agency. What is the point of this? They were acting on government instructions, saying the opposite of what the government tells us.
What was this charade of contradicting messages about?
Flooding the zone
Flooding the zone is a strategy that releases contradictory messages, mixes facts with fictional details so in that the end nobody knows what is true and what is not. This means that either the government has information on aliens and wants to hide it or it has no information on aliens und wants to hide that, too - potentially using it as a smokescreen for something else, for example advanced weapons testing.
It would be highly amusing if the government had used a science fiction style playbook to cover up military technology after decades of denying the existence of UFOs (renaming them as UAPs is another flood point).
If the government knew, should it drop all contradicting messages and tell the truth? Or would truth be something that mankind could not stomach at this time?
Imagine the president of the United States stepped in front of a bouquet of microphones:
“We have proof of alien intelligences visiting Earth. We also have some of their craft and are reengineering it. This is a great business opportunity. Be reasonable, people.”
And would they be?
Would they be reasonable?
There are two primary ways this could play out.
1: Mankind at its best
A spark illuminates the human night. It is the realization that there is an infinite universe out there. It used the be the fabric of stories. Now it has become reality.
We are standing at the threshold of the interstellar era of mankind.
It is a new era of enlightenment.
The commercial media landscape dries up overnight. Interest in knowledge, thought, science, wisdom, philosophy, literature and the arts expands exponentially. Suddenly humanity wants to become the best version of itself.
Instead of looking at themselves in self-centered isolation, human beings raise their eyes and take in the grand panorama of the universe. Political divides disappear like lines of chalk on a sidewalk in a spring rain. Gambling joints remain empty. Pornography sites have no visitors. Criminals want to turn their lives around and turn towards the light.
The liars and ideologues, manipulators and frauds, marauders and mercenaries, all those pied pipers that have led humanity into the darkness for so long fall into oblivion as if the had never existed. Mankind rids itself decisively of these elements of doom as a civilization does that wants to rise.
Dystopian fantasies fade like nightmares. The rising morning sun of a new future burns them to ashes.
This is a monolith moment in human history:
In the novel “2001: a Space Odyssey” by Arthur C. Clarke, turned into a classic movie by Stanley Kubrick an alien monolith appears among ape men and by its supreme energy raises them to become space men who find a second monolith on the moon. It inspires an interplanetary pilgrimage to Jupiter where astronaut David Bowman finds a third monolith and the understanding of existence.
The aliens are impressed by the sudden turn of mankind from consumer culture to an interstellar race and alter the reserved behavior they have held during hundreds of years of watching us. They acknowledge that man is ready to step out into space.
This is how the interstellar era of mankind begins.
2: Mankind at its worst
Can you see the crowds racing towards the alien landing sites guided by alien spotter apps? Look how they blindly run into the high energy drive fields of the ships. Those surviving the attempt on a historic selfie with aliens tell stories of alien attacks copying the tropes of SciFi horror TV shows.
Platform algorithms of doom make these invasion reports go to the top while the boring voices - those who offer truth and thought - get pushed down to the bottom where nobody can see them. AI slop enhances the lies. Lies feed upon lies and this tornado of fake grinds up every bit of truth. Nobody knows what is true any more. Nobody can tell what really happened and doesn’t think one should know. Truth is irrelevant. What gets the most clicks, likes and follows is what counts.
Human virtues and truth fall like domino tiles one after the other. And when the last tile will have fallen, will humanity still stand?
Digital hate mobs turn into lynch mobs and pull the reasonable voices out of their houses, decrying them as traitors and supporters of the alien invasion and burn them alive on make-shift stakes.
The worst of mankind rise and spread riots, robbery, rape and murder, reframing their bloodlust as being freedom fighters who will cleanse the world. Warlords attack the national guard and firefighters, declaring the government an enemy - taken over by alien body snatchers. AI-driven home lab nutcases release deadly viruses, fantasizing themselves as instruments of judgement day.
In the chaos, war breaks out all over the globe. Nobody knows who is fighting whom and why. Black clouds of a burned civilization cover the horizons and above them stand, in ghostly stillness, the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions like statues of regret over a planet-wide cemetery.
The aliens reconsider.
After hundreds of years of watching us they decide mankind is a lost cause. Only one thing is left to do: this madness must not jump over to other worlds.
No human being sees the aliens leave. As the last tile drops not a single human is alive.
Seeing what is is a deceptively difficult task.
I congratulate the US government on its well thought-out flooding the zone strategy.
It may have saved mankind.